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<p>[QUOTE="all_fakes, post: 171446, member: 55"]Yes indeed.</p><p>I have/had several iron-clad rules:</p><p>1) never buy in an area I know nothing about</p><p>2) never buy just because the price is good, or for investment</p><p>3) don't expand collecting - into areas that are merely similar to stuff I do collect.</p><p><br /></p><p>But it turns out that stuff that doesn't fit the rules sneaks into my house anyhow. Rule 3 is especially likely to be broken, so the collection expands from just old NW Coast native wood items to include new wood...and then prints, new and old....and then baskets....and then a few Inuit things....and soon I have no wall space left, no floor space, soon I'll be sleeping in the bathtub like the hoarders one sees on TV.....[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="all_fakes, post: 171446, member: 55"]Yes indeed. I have/had several iron-clad rules: 1) never buy in an area I know nothing about 2) never buy just because the price is good, or for investment 3) don't expand collecting - into areas that are merely similar to stuff I do collect. But it turns out that stuff that doesn't fit the rules sneaks into my house anyhow. Rule 3 is especially likely to be broken, so the collection expands from just old NW Coast native wood items to include new wood...and then prints, new and old....and then baskets....and then a few Inuit things....and soon I have no wall space left, no floor space, soon I'll be sleeping in the bathtub like the hoarders one sees on TV.....[/QUOTE]
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